Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

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We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

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Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.

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Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

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